Wallis recounts an Indian legend passed down thougth generations of Alaskan Athabascan women. Two women, aged 80 and 70, are abandoned by their tribe during a famine and must find a way to survive the winter.
Wallis recounts an Indian legend passed down thougth generations of Alaskan Athabascan women. Two women, aged 80 and 70, are abandoned by their tribe during a famine and must find a way to survive the winter.
The author of the bestselling "Two Old Women" retells another classic Alaskan Indian legend about two adventurers who break the taboos of their community and set out on dangerous quests for freedom and knowledge. Line art throughout.
Opening a window to a world rarely seen, Velma Wallis tells her family's troubled history with honesty, wisdom, wit, and overriding hope. Wallis also wrote Two Old Women, the million-seller translated into seventeen languages.
From the author of the bestselling Two Old Women comes the story of two Native Americans who break the strict taboos of their communal culture in their quests for freedom and adventure in the unknown. For a headstrong young woman, it means defying her family's expectations to brave life on her own. For a curious young man, it means forsaking the ...
RAISING OURSELVES is a gritty, sobering, yet irresistible memoir filled with laughter even as generations of Gwich'in grief seeps from past to present. But hope pushes back hopelessness, and a new strength and wisdom emerge from the lives of the native people of the Yukon River in Alaska.
This retelling of stories from Alaska is actually two Athabaskan legends woven together. When Bird Girl is kidnapped by the enemies of her people, she is forced to live a life of humiliation. Will Bird Girl be able to free herself? Parallel to Bird Girl's story is that of Daagoo, a young man who travels the world searching for the sun.
Wallis recounts an Indian legend passed down thougth generations of Alaskan Athabascan women. Two women, aged 80 and 70, are abandoned by their tribe during a famine and must find a way to survive the winter.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gregath
Date Published: 1996
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Book has had some water damage to foredges and to front hinge mostly staining to top corner and wrinkling, no text involved. TICE, WILLIAMS, WALLIS, JOHNSON, BONHAM, NIX, read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Date Published: 1996-06-01
ISBN-13:9780945397342ISBN:0945397348
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